1987 New York Mets Payroll Details

The team payroll $ value represents the starting payroll on opening day.

The list includes all players who played at least 1 game for this team for this season and may not include all players added after opening day. For these players, the assumption is that they earned the minimum MLB salary.

Centiles: All players for a given year are divided into 100 groups based on a sorted list of salaries. The top 1% of salaries are in centile #100. The lowest centile is ~20 since most players below this value are making the league minimum.

Players making more than league average have their salary displayed in bold